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Miss Mina Rose de Guzman Belew, born on August 26, 2013 at 6:09 a.m. She is a lovely baby. Brian and I - and her big brother Mateo - are absolutely in love with her.

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Yesterday was the ninth anniversary of my father’s death. I didn’t really think about it until my mother mentioned it while I was visiting her this evening, and then I didn’t think of it again until I finished another draft of a poem that I’ve been working on - at ( Read more... )

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And every small tragedy is also large. The anniversary of the September eleventh attacks was made somehow more personal this year. September tenth is my niece Michel’s birthday. She would have been twenty-three. Her family and friends gathered at my sister’s house to ( Read more... )

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Brian, Mateo, and I went to WonderCon this weekend. In years past, the weather was invariably rainy during this comics convention, but this year it was wonderfully warm and sunny. We spent a couple of hours outside of the convention hall each afternoon, having tea and ( Read more... )

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I have been puzzling for months over the primary critique of my novel that I received from the editor who is reading it - that my protagonist lives in her own head too much. My problem isn’t one of understanding but of experience. To me, the sixteen-year-old who ( Read more... )

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I wrote Michel’s obituary:


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I was in the men’s sock department at Target. Brian’s phone rang, my brother Richard’s picture appearing on the screen. I answered.

“Do you know where Mom is?” Richard asked.

No, I said, as I pointed out socks to Brian that I liked. Richard said no one could find her, ( Read more... )